1. The petitioner is the mother of the respondent. The petitioner's husband, T.P.S. Hariram Sait, who is the father of the respondent, died necessitating the petitioner taking over as Managing Director of M/s. T.P. Sokkalal Beedi Factory Private Limited, Tirunelvelli. The petitioner and late T.P.S. Hariram Sait have five children born out of the wedlock of whom the respondent is a daughter, aged about 31 years.

2. The death of the respondent's father appears to be when she was small child. The petitioner brought up the respondent and the respondent studied up to 10th Standard. Consequent to the status of the petitioner's family the daughter of the respondent was brought up in comfort.

3. Due to certain misunderstandings between the mother and the daughter, the respondent is now living away from the petitioner for over two years. The respondent has chosen to file a petition under S. 125 Cr.P.C., before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Tirunelveli in M.C. No. 79 of 1988 claiming maintenance for herself from her mother.

4. The averments in the petition for maintenance indicate that one Thomas Fernando, a chartered accountant, often visited the family house and moved very closely with